A few days ago, I republished a post from a few years back on food allergies. This was mostly because I am still sorting things out in my new WordPress surroundings, and wanted to see how to repost something. Tinker with this, click on that, you know. A new commenter had just … [Read more...]

In my review of the The Truth About Organic Foods, I had occasion to quote Chesterton, and this raised an important question in the minds of some -- where do I get off quoting Chesterton in the midst of a post that, for all intents and purposes, looked to some like a valiant … [Read more...]

A few weeks ago, a winemaker from Walla Walla named Gino Cuneo gave a presentation at New St. Andrews' weekly Disputatio. His presentation was excellent -- much like his wines actually. The reason I bring this up is that his answer to one of the questions sent my musings off in … [Read more...]

The task this morning is to follow up on some reasonable questions raised in the comments of the previous post, God's Bistro. The basic outline of my response will be to grant a point at the center, but to differ as to what the appropriate responses and applications ought to … [Read more...]

What is the balance to be kept when it comes to saying that God "doesn't care what you eat," which He doesn't, and saying that we are to exercise dominion in all that we do? If there is no neutrality anywhere, and there isn't, then how does this fit with statements like "God … [Read more...]

My friend Toby Sumpter has written a series of posts on food here (starting with his Free Range post), and this has generated some back and forth in various places, both online and off, and I thought I should join the discussion. But first some exegetical background.
In John … [Read more...]

If you like to eat what you like to eat, this means that you are a human being. If you are morally indignant about the food choices of others, this means you are well on the way to becoming a food leftist.
Leftism is that impulse that wants to establish coercion and call it … [Read more...]

From time to time the authorities haul in some renegade cheese maker, and those who love bureaucratized food safety all breath a sigh of relief. This kind of tyranny is heavy-handed enough to get noticed by those who yearn for food freedom -- as I do -- but not so noticed … [Read more...]

One of the ways to tell if an issue has become politicized is by seeing if qualifications, when appropriately made, are actually heard. For example, if a member of faction y says that from time to time members of faction x have been convicted of corruption, the politicized … [Read more...]